Motivational Quotes

Government

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

- Gardner, John W.

Best Quotes about Government

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Gladstone, William E.

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Bertrand Russell

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Tuchman, Barbara

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

Roosevelt, Theodore

When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects,this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.

Heinlein, Robert

Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Washington, George

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Kempton, Murray

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

10.

So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill

11.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Bastiat, Frederic

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Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.

Amsterdam, Maury

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You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Jefferson, Thomas

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As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Jackson, Andrew

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Updike, John

20.

Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Kocher, Gerhard

21.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Dulles, John Foster

22.

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Fred Thompson

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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Churchill, Winston

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Murray, Bill

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

Madison, James

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No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Socrates

29.

Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Truman, Harry S

30.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Jefferson, Thomas

31.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Cousin, Victor

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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Friedman, Milton

37.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

Mills, C. Wright

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The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Welch, Robert

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Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Reagan, Ronald

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The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

46.

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

Lippmann, Walter

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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H. L. Mencken

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An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

Bob Wells

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Government can be bigger than any of the players on the field as a referee, but it has no right to become one of the players.

Igleheart, Austin